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act ho pays me a double compliment, for it is painted only for 

 the sake of posterity, and besides it can nowhere be better or 

 mure accurately copied tliau in Paris. Give him my respectful 

 tiiaiiks if he is still here, and tell him that I am doubly grateful 

 to him. 



" I am, my good Sir, most obedient, 

 ■' llammarby, 1775, Sept. 17." " Linn6." 



Linne in his diary says: — "Mr. Rosliu, who asks of others 

 1000 plfitar, paints Linne's portrait for nothiug, and so excel- 

 lently tliat none could be more like; all the other portraits are 

 somewhat unlike." (Afz-elius's Egenh. Anteck. p. 68.) 



The further story of this p(n'trait is so well told in the official 

 minutes of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Stockholm that I 

 need only read the extracts so kiudlv furnished and translated 

 by Mr. Gepp. Under date July 21,^1779, it is recorded:— "A 

 copy of the portrait of the late Archiater v. Linne engraved in 

 Paris was now shown. 150 copies of it had been sent by 

 Mr. Eoslin by the hand of the good Swedish sculptor, Mr. Ser- 

 gei, who has just returned home. Further Roslin's letter of 

 the 12th of May to the Secretary was read, in which he states 

 that the whole expense of the engraving of the portrait has 

 amounted to 108G Trench livres, the paper and printing 500 

 copies included, and that of these 500 copies he had kept 350. . . 

 . . . .That the amount is entered, against the Royal Academy, in 

 Paris. All the members present found the engraving a very 

 good ])iece of work, but opinions as to its greater or less resem- 

 blance to our much missed Linue were divided. The Academy 

 resolved that the widow and son, together with Mr. Biick, who 

 bad spoken at the grave, and Mr. Sergei should ea(!h be pre- 

 sented with a copy, while the rest that had been sent should be 

 sold to the members and others who might like to buy them at 

 half a Riksdaler a piece. Mr. Roslin in his letter also offers to 

 present to the Academy the original portrait itself, which he 

 painted four years ago, and after which the engraving has been 

 made in Paris. The Secretary was instructed to thank him in 

 the choicest language for the offer, which is accepted by the 

 Academy with the greatest delight, and at the same time to 

 request him to present copies of the engraving on the part of 

 the Academy to the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris, tlie 

 new Medical Society, and to both their Secretaries, the Marquis 

 de Condorcet and M. Vicq d'Azir, who spoke at our Linne's 

 grave, and furthermore to its former correspondent M. Guettard 

 and Prof, de Ener." 



Under date of September 13th of the same year we read : — 



" A letter was read from the portrait painter and Knight of 



the Royal Wasa Order, Mr. Roslin, dated Paris, Aug. 11, in 



which he presents to the Academy the portrait whicii he has 



painted of the deceased member, the Archiater and Knight of 



